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[Ghost]

After 19 minutes 'Morning has broken' kicks in, it's all peaceful and beautiful, then some bitch on a loud speaker starts yelling about the 2 party system...this song is evil.

 

[NotWii]

Hahahaha this is the best song ever! :lol

 

[SRG01]

This isn't annoying at all. :lol

 

[LiveFromKyoto]

I admit, I only lasted 2 minutes. I couldn't handle the opera rapping.

 

[Stridone]

Holy shit, this song is awesome. :lol

 

[Crushed]

Hey, I know a song that'll get on your nerves.

I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves,
everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves,
I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves,
and this is how it goes.
I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves,
everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves,
I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves,
and this is how it goes.
I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves,
everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves,
I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves,
and this is how it goes.
I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves,
everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves,
I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves,
and this is how it goes.
I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves,
everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves,
I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves,
and this is how it goes.
I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves,
everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves,
I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves,
and this is how it goes.

 

[Atilac]

Shouldn't scientists try to cure cancer. Carrot top has this covered.

 

[lastendconductor]

Fuck this is fucking annoying what's wrong with you guys!

 

[Ghost]

Fuck this is fucking annoying what's wrong with you guys!

I'm guessing most of the people replying didn't get as far as 'Morning has broken'. I was grinding teeth by that point.

 

[Stridone]

I'm guessing most of the people replying didn't get as far as 'Morning has broken'. I was grinding teeth by that point.

Yeah, that was fucking annoying. But not as bad as those kids repeating the wallmart shit all the time. I wanted to kill them.

Everyone's singing together at the end, it actually sounds good.:lol

 

[Danielsan]

At first I shrugged and kind of enjoyed it (the cowboy music). Then the opera rap came in and I couldn't help but laugh. However when the bagpipes and shit started to play I couldn't handle it any longer. They've succeeded as far as I'm concerned.

 

[Fireblend]

Gurren Lagann already had opera-rapping and they pulled it off well. :lol

 

[Nishastra]

I listened to the whole thing and love it. But it's entirely possible that I'm one of the "200 people" who would, considering how odd my musical tastes are to begin with

 

[adg1034]

I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves,
everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves,
I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves,
and this is how it goes.
I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves,
everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves,
I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves,
and this is how it goes.
I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves,
everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves,
I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves,
and this is how it goes.
I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves,
everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves,
I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves,
and this is how it goes.
I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves,
everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves,
I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves,
and this is how it goes.
I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves,
everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves,
I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves,
and this is how it goes.

Beaten by Crushed. Oh, well.

 

[Atrophis]

I'm sure that Pitchfork Media is well on its way to voting this as the best piece of music ever written.

Wow it really must be awful then.

 

[Wilsongt]

Trying my hardest not to burst out laughing during the raping opera... I am in a lab and other people are here... Oh God.

:lol :lol :lol :lol :lol

 

[Outcast2004]

They fail, because the Fergie already did it.

Fixed...

The correct answer was "What is Fergalicious..... Fergalicious." Surry. The judges would have also accepted "Crank Dat Soulja Boy", even though it's not in English.

 

[Zaptruder]

GAF has its fair share of musical elitists with their heads far far up their asses... that this 'song' manages to sound good to them. (apologies to the one person that finds it earnestly good... apologies for your ears that is).

 

[ZealousD]

Fixed...

The correct answer was "What is Fergalicious..... Fergalicious." Surry. The judges would have also accepted "Crank Dat Soulja Boy", even though it's not in English.

Nickelback's "Rock Star" is also acceptable.

GAF has its fair share of musical elitists with their heads far far up their asses... that this 'song' manages to sound good to them. (apologies to the one person that finds it earnestly good... apologies for your ears that is).

This song falls into the "so bad it's good" category.

Clearly, the scientists did not take this into account.

 

[Yoboman]

Wow, this really is annoying. Like stressfully annoying

worthwhile for the opera rapping alone

Somebody has not seen Gurren Lagann

 

[Wilsongt]

Basshunter: Now You're Gone also aptly applies here.

 

[Cymbal Head]

I've got to give this a second listen. So awesome. The kids chorus singing about Ramadan and Yom Kippur is priceless.

Edit: did I notice that both the wanted and unwanted songs contain references to Wittgenstein?

The only feature in lyric subjects that occurs in both most wanted and unwanted categories is "intellectual stimulation."

 

[Meloche]

These kids are killing me. They just keep finding more holidays to tell people to go to Walmart for. :lol :lol

 

[Hellsing321]

:lol :lol Oh god this reminds of the Scene in Walk Hard where Dewy is tripping on acid constantly and trying to write his masterpiece with 500 different instruments.

 

[Solaros]

One would have to listen to like "The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza," perhaps Ion Dissonance, and Beneath the Massacre for the antithesis of music I would think.

Ion Dissonance in particular, even though I really like them, just play all their shit in odd meter, screaming, crazy drums, and guitar work that doesn't make sense.

I promise that most people on this board will hate it more than this song.

 

[JayDubya]

The art section is good, too.

Italy's Least Wanted Painting

 

[Cymbal Head]

The art section is good, too.

Italy's Least Wanted Painting

Denmark's least wanted

NSFW?

 

[Hitokage]

This American Life did a segment on this a decade ago!

http://www.thislife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=88

 

[Prime crotch]

This is lacking love for that I'm blue song.

I'm blue da ba dee da ba die (repeat)

 

[Nishastra]

I promise that most people on this board will hate it more than this song.

Oh, definitely. There's a good amount of music out there that would probably cause most of the people here to run away screaming

 

[Magnus]

I'd rather listen to this than most of the crap that indie bands in Toronto have been playing for the last six months. Seriously

 

[Chichikov]

It wasn’t that bad.
The reason they failed is pretty obvious, some people hate rap, some hate bluegrass, and some hate opera. But assuming that musical distaste has cumulative attribute is pretty stupid.
Not to mention that the intent make it meta-interesting.

Holy shit, every time the holiday music kicks in, I lose it. :lol :lol :lol :lol


Oh and BTW, the same people did the world's most likable song using the same methodology.

http://www.ubu.com/sound/komar.html

This is 1000 times worse, absolutely horrible.

 

[Kusagari]

Theres way worse than this. Seriously, the song can't be the most annoying ever just because it's so funny. Did the scientists not realize this?

 

[Salmonax]

If a mainstream band had put this together, they'd be hailed as visionaries.

 

[Hellsing321]

People, you have to listen to the whole thing before you can say if it is annoying or not. If you can't make it to completion then it is annoying.

 

[Salmonax]

People, you have to listen to the whole thing before you can say if it is annoying or not. If you can't make it to completion then it is annoying.

I'm at 10 minutes and I'm loving the banjo/tuba jam.

 

[Kusagari]

People, you have to listen to the whole thing before you can say if it is annoying or not. If you can't make it to completion then it is annoying.

I'm at 14 minutes and haven't found anything annoying. I'd rather listen to this than 90% of the crap on the radio.

 

[Son of Godzilla]

People, you have to listen to the whole thing before you can say if it is annoying or not. If you can't make it to completion then it is annoying.

I listened to it all the way through. It's great. The kids holiday Walmart jingles are fucking amazing.

 

[voodoojohn]

Okay, the opera rapping made me cackle like a hyena. But how did any of you enjoy the demented bagpipes?

 

[methane47]

Ok... the opera rapping is horrible..

 

[Solaros]

They didn't take into account the short attention span of people, and how some with those types of short attention spans would like this.

 

[voodoojohn]

"Philosophy itself is nonsense, nonsense!!"

 

[Particle Physicist]

okay. the beginning was kind of fun.. but whatever this shit thats going on around 7 minutes in has successfully annoyed the crap out of me.

 

[methane47]

LOLLOLOLOL when the kids break in to the holiday portions cracks me the heck up!!

"HEY EVERYBODY!!!" LOLOLOL hillarious

but if they really wanted annoying they should have gone for dissonance mixed with Screamo.

 

[clav]

Yeah this isn't annoying.

They probably asked people who just hated opera.

This is made of :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol

 

[shoplifter]

OK, I admit it. I own this album. Yes, I seriously paid money for it.

I find Most Unwanted Song absolutely awesome, but I'm probably one of the "200". If I'm remembering right, the did surveys (on usenet or a website - the survey was only 500 people, so there's obviously a high margin of error) and took the things people liked and put them in the one song. They then took the things that were least liked and put them all in Most Unwanted.

Most Wanted is totally unlistenable. If nothing else, it's an interesting statement that when you combine the 'most liked things' you typical get something horribly bland and unoffensive, which really results in terrible music.

Notes by the Composer

This survey confirms the hypothesis that today’s popular music indeed provides an accurate estimate of the wishes of the vox populi. The most favored ensemble, determined from a rating by participants of their favorite instruments in combination, comprises a moderately sized group (three to ten instruments) consisting of guitar, piano, saxophone, bass, drums, violin, cello, synthesizer, with low male and female vocals singing in rock/r&b style. The favorite lyrics narrate a love story, and the favorite listening circumstance is at home. The only feature in lyric subjects that occurs in both most wanted and unwanted categories is “intellectual stimulation.” Most participants desire music of moderate duration (approximately 5 minutes), moderate pitch range, moderate tempo, and moderate to loud volume, and display a profound dislike of the alternatives. If the survey provides an accurate analysis of these factors for the population, and assuming that the preference for each factor follows a Gaussian (i.e. bell-curve) distribution, the combination of these qualities, even to the point of sensory overload and stylistic discohesion, will result in a musical work that will be unavoidably and uncontrollably “liked” by 72 plus or minus 12% (standard deviation; Kolmogorov-Smirnov statistic) of listeners.

The most unwanted music is over 25 minutes long, veers wildly between loud and quiet sections, between fast and slow tempos, and features timbres of extremely high and low pitch, with each dichotomy presented in abrupt transition. The most unwanted orchestra was determined to be large, and features the accordion and bagpipe (which tie at 13% as the most unwanted instrument), banjo, flute, tuba, harp, organ, synthesizer (the only instrument that appears in both the most wanted and most unwanted ensembles). An operatic soprano raps and sings atonal music, advertising jingles, political slogans, and “elevator” music, and a children's choir sings jingles and holiday songs. The most unwanted subjects for lyrics are cowboys and holidays, and the most unwanted listening circumstances are involuntary exposure to commericals and elevator music. Therefore, it can be shown that if there is no covariance—someone who dislikes bagpipes is as likely to hate elevator music as someone who despises the organ, for example—fewer than 200 individuals of the world's total population would enjoy this piece.

Art for the people—
Your pal, Dave Soldier
June 1997

 

[snacknuts]

Trying my hardest not to burst out laughing during the raping opera... I am in a lab and other people are here... Oh God.

:lol :lol :lol :lol :lol

 

[Freshmaker]

If Tim & Eric created this song everyone on the planet except for the 50 T&E fans (hi, guys) would hate it to death.

That's 'cause the joke would hinge upon an ugly guy singing it.

 

[Manics]

I'm putting this on my iPod, it's great!

 

[Tristam]

This isn't "My Humps."